Art And The Database Execution Plan

Brent Ozar has pictures of beautiful execution plans. And, like most art, these plans (and their originating queries) should be framed, stored in a museum, and never made practical use of...

Mass Effect (PC): A mini-review

Rather than go into a big long post about how awesome Mass Effect is, and it is awesome, I decided to just write a few brief words on it. It's a Bioware RPG. It is also the worst Bioware RPG I've played. This is no insult to Mass Effect; it is rather an endorsement of…